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| author | Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> | 2016-11-21 19:32:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> | 2017-01-10 14:00:40 +0100 |
| commit | af3076e67c31ceb3e314933dd61cb68a1d5120cf (patch) | |
| tree | 3ec829a29c38fa14f4fbde92746416331b73e638 /drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus | |
| parent | drm: update MAINTAINERS for qemu drivers (bochs, cirrus, qxl, virtio-gpu) (diff) | |
| download | linux-af3076e67c31ceb3e314933dd61cb68a1d5120cf.tar.xz linux-af3076e67c31ceb3e314933dd61cb68a1d5120cf.zip | |
drm: flip cirrus driver status to "obsolete".
Also update Kconfig help text, explaining things:
Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies
and can't keep up with todays needs. More background:
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/
Better alternatives are:
- stdvga (DRM_BOCHS, qemu -vga std, default in qemu 2.2+)
- qxl (DRM_QXL, qemu -vga qxl, works best with spice)
- virtio (VIRTIO_GPU), qemu -vga virtio)
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig index 04b3c161dfae..7f4cc6e172ab 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig @@ -7,3 +7,12 @@ config DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU This is a KMS driver for emulated cirrus device in qemu. It is *NOT* intended for real cirrus devices. This requires the modesetting userspace X.org driver. + + Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies + and can't keep up with todays needs. More background: + https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/ + + Better alternatives are: + - stdvga (DRM_BOCHS, qemu -vga std, default in qemu 2.2+) + - qxl (DRM_QXL, qemu -vga qxl, works best with spice) + - virtio (DRM_VIRTIO_GPU), qemu -vga virtio) |